Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm, wrinkles the soul.
~ Willa Cather

Cruz, rescued Mountain Lion, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona 2015
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm, wrinkles the soul.
~ Willa Cather

Cruz, rescued Mountain Lion, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona 2015
May your troubles be less, and your blessings be more,
and nothing but happiness, come through your door.
~ Irish Blessing

Purple Flower, Aix-en-Provence, France 2006

Spotted on an interpretive sign, Jekyll Island, GA 2007
How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
~ Spanish Proverb

Waterfall, North Cascades National Park, Washington 2008
We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
~ Frederick Koenig

Sapsucker, Madera Canyon, Arizona 2009
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us…
~ Marcel Proust

Beach Trail, Long Beach, Washington 2012
Two west-facing houses across the street from the ocean with two vastly different viewpoints…
My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through the earth’s loveliness.
~ Michelangelo

The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be.
~ Loesje

John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon 2008
If you don’t make mistakes you are not really trying.
~ Coleman Hawkins

Western Screech Owl, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona 2008